E-ART: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND CONTEMPORARY ART

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts with the Daniel Langlois Foundation

"Hylozoic Soil" by Philip Beesley

"The exhibition begins in a room occupied by Holozoic Soil (2007) by Philip Beesley. The work of this architect constitutes a vestibule through which we, the visitors, will pass into another space and time, a biometric environment, a reactive space. This transformation occurs as we enter an 'organic and living' system. These quasi-plants - all synthetic - come to life in the space, retracting, contracting, slackening and opening as we pass, creating in us a sense of both wonderment and anxiety. They trigger an emotional response from visitors, prompting them to 'question the boundaries between nature and artifice and examine their own organic condition as they interact with technology'."